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I am obsessed!😍🤩 Here is Hannah's @hannahelatham.bsky.social beautiful version of the three main characters from my upcoming fantasy series God Tokens: 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹, 𝗘𝗿𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘆𝗱𝗼𝗻.

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The In the Blink of a Dragon's Eye shipping boxes arrived today! Absolutely love the way they turned out!

Less than 2 weeks left in the Kickstarter, back today!

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between the tariffs and genAI it makes any art that crosses your path, indie or mainstream, a hard-fought miracle. really appreciate the creativity you see because artists of all stripes are really working against an avalanche intent on burying us

p.s. authors, your editor cannot review your book. as much as we would love to and as much as we can help promote in other ways, it is considered a commercial conflict on most platforms and can even run the risk of getting your book banned.

Canadian here! Most of us genuinely want the best for the American people (who don't deserve economic hardship either), but family and friends *have* been making lists of US products to avoid. ...My brother was particularly devastated to read "Product of USA" on his Earth Island Vegenaise.

Great list! I totally love all of these. I've found Story Grid's resources to be really helpful for developmental editing, as well.

The part of your brain the creates and the part of your brain that edits are different. When you edit while writing, you switch your mode of thinking and can gum up the works, so to speak, knocking yourself out of your groove. Correct obvious mistakes, but knock out your pages and edit them after.

Thanks for tagging me, @mmelemew.bsky.social! ❤️ I am, unfortunately, tied to my Kindle Scribe, so I won't be buying ebooks through Bookshop myself. 🥲 Super excited about the prospects of this, though!

Remember: Every book you’ve ever loved started as a messy draft #writingcommunity #skywriters

Hey, #booksky! Say hi to Emily. Her beautiful M/M historical romance, the 11th Code, had me copyediting through my tears—and she's currently writing her first fantasy novel. So excited to see her on here!
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I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks

Oh, awesome! Thank you. 😊

Book research is its own hobby. I could dig around for books I want to read all day. I could go to a bookstore and look at every spine, every cover, read every synopsis.

One of my greatest freelancing joys has been the freedom to spread my wings as a night owl, which generally has not been a problem—until Bluesky. I keep thinking of editing-related tweets at 1 a.m. 😂 Anyone know of a way to schedule posts? #writersky

He *might* be my favourite design from you. I adore this lil' dude—and the FB haters only make the fires of my love burn brighter.

Iconic. He will be missed. Although, I am digging the new site design.

40,000 people have now signed the Statement on AI Training, which says training gen AI on creative work without a license “must not be permitted”.

Thank you to all who have signed.

Still open ➡️ aitrainingstatement.org

I re-arranged these tips in the middle of writing this thread and forgot to fix them at the end. Let's just pretend they're in order. 😂

I’ll stop there for now—but these tidbits have helped me greatly both as a writer and a copy editor! If anyone has any questions, feel free to drop them below. 😊 #booksky #writing

(9) Keep an eye on filter words (e.g., thought, knew, realized, heard). This essay from Chuck Palahniuk is an invaluable read: litreactor.com/essays/chuck....

(8) Watch for misplaced and dangling modifiers. Misplaced modifiers are situated too far from the words they describe. Dangling modifiers describe a word/phrase/clause that’s been mistakenly omitted from the sentence. For further explanation, check out this article: opentextbc.ca/advancedengl....

(7) Watch for nonparallel constructions. E.g., “He grabbed and tossed his hat to Joseph” doesn’t quite make sense. If we take out “…and tossed” this reads like “He grabbed his hat to Joseph.” Revision: “He grabbed his hat and tossed it to Joseph.”

(6) Does each paragraph flow into the next? (Unless a sudden break in flow serves your style/narrative.) If one paragraph describes the setting and the next describes the MC’s mother who lives in another city, this could throw readers off if no logical connection has been made between the two ideas.

(6) Are there any descriptions that don’t add to a scene? Action beats of a character turning about or looking in a certain direction can often be trimmed. E.g., “He looked at Amy. ‘What do you want from me?’ he asked” might be simplified to dialogue only: “’What do you want from me, Amy?’”

(5) Watch for pet phrases! These are recurring words or actions throughout the manuscript. Every author has them. The most common pet phrases I see are adverbs (e.g., almost, really, even, seemingly) or action beats (e.g., releasing a sigh, running a hand through one’s hair, smiling warmly).

(4) Could any sentences be condensed? E.g., “One of the quickest ways through the fog that was still dense…” might become “One of the quickest ways through the dense fog…”

(2) Could your verbs be made more impactful? E.g., basic movement verbs like "walked" or "ran" might become "barreled" or "scampered" depending on the context. (3) Could your nouns become more specific? E.g., "She works at a restaurant" might become "She flips burgers at McDonald's."

Of course! Bear with me here, as this will be a bit of a thread. (1) Are there any familiar phrases or cliches? E.g., describing characters by eye and hair colour, or opening scenes with a character waking up. In other words, what differentiates your story and prose from other authors' work?

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Oh, hey! I recognize this lil' guy. (He's currently keeping my own books company.) ☺️